Nazarene Theological Seminary

I am a good story teller.

I always have been.  My brother is the writer but I am the teller.  I can tell stories about my life, the life of God, the life of your mommas God, the life of your mommas mommas God.  simply put, I can tell stories because I am good at it.

I am not good at living in a story.

Often, I am an unfaithful, wandering, selfish character trying to escape the direction of the plot.  Telling Stories are easier because I can control the direction.  I can decide what rhetorial device I will use and control voice inflection.  But living in a story requires knowledge, obedience, and surrender to direction.

My life is not only recounting and re-telling the events that are easy to talk about but living faithfully into the narrative that I have been called.

This is not as easy, in fact, it's a struggle.